Wave Your WAND for a New Taxonomy Portal
May 2, 2014
If a library is in need of a taxonomy, most of the time all they need to do it wave a magic wand and its taxonomy wish is granted. Actually, they become a WAND, Inc. client, the world’s leading taxonomy provider. According to the WAND Inc. blog, the company has launched a new endeavor: “WAND Announces Launch Of New Taxonomy Portal.” The WAND Taxonomy Library Portal helps companies develop a taxonomy strategy that is integral for enterprise management strategy.
“According to Mark Leher, WAND’s COO, ‘The amount of unstructured information and data inside organizations continues to explode. Companies need a taxonomy strategy to organize information and make it easily accessible to enterprise information workers. The WAND Taxonomy Library Portal is a valuable resource that provides the foundation for a corporate taxonomy strategy.’ “
WAND Taxonomy Library Portal subscribers receive access to all of WAND’s taxonomies. They cover a range of topics, including insurance, medical equipment and supplies, travel, personal care, human resources, and many more. The portal is designed to help companies get the highest return investment on management applications.
“Leher continued, ‘What most people don’t realize is that there are more than 150 common enterprise information management applications that are designed to leverage taxonomy. We estimate that most large organizations have already invested in 10-20 of those applications. At WAND, our goal is to provide taxonomies that make those applications more effective and increase the return on investment.’ “
Taxonomies are lists of terms. It is hard to imagine that term lists are integral part of using a management applications, but they are important to identifying content and building a reference framework.
Whitney Grace, May 02, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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” It is hard to imagine that term lists are integral part of using a management applications, but they are important to identifying content and building a reference framework.” This is hardly a panegyric statement, but taxonomies have been used within search engines for decades; even library card catalogs since classification started. Taxonomies are refinements of terms and their meanings so the proper information can be found by the user.
Thanks for pointing our this resource. One other which has been used by librarians is Taxonomy Warehouse.
There are many classification schemes (taxonomies,) and many of those are quite unique, having been developed by librarians for special purpose collections of books, documents, photos (such as Getty images.)